This Is Your Mixtape

35. Hey Jupiter. [Pride Special.]


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In this special episode, host Michael

Collins takes you back to his preteen and early
teen years, and talks about what it was like growing up a lonely closeted gay
boy in rural Newfoundland, and how Tori Amos and the piano helped him make a
sort of sense of it all. Regular programming will resume next week!

Songs in this episode.
  • Prelude in C minor by J.S.
  • Bach.
  • Precious Things by Tori
  • Amos.
  • Hey Jupiter by Tori Amos.
  • Show Notes.

    This story and more of Michael's writing can be found at his new

    Medium page, <https://medium.com/@mikeycollins>;

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